Appear - From A New Idea To Successful Partnerships

Implementing Organizations

West Africa Workshop, 28 June 2013, Vienna

Elke Stinnig

OeAD - Austrian Agency for Inernational Cooperation in Education and Research

Outline Programme overview Results of the calls Public relations activities Successful partnerships Outlook

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General Information Appear is financed by the Austrian Development

Cooperation, ADC (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Austrian Development Agency, ADA); Based on the „Strategy on Higher Education and Scientific Cooperation“

Implementing organisations - appear TeamLAI - Austrian Latin America Institute OeAD - Austrian Agency for Inernational Cooperation in Education and Research

Decision making bodiesSelection Board and Steering Committee

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Programme Components Component 1 Academic partnerships in higher education, research

and management to strengthen the institutional capacities of academic partner institutions in the South

Preparatory funding to support researchers and institutions who do not yet have well established links and to plan and jointly write a project proposal

Component 2 Master's and PhD grants in Austria for students and

professionals from eligible countries

Budget: around 9 Million Euro (2010-2014)

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Objectives

Institutional capacity building in higher education, research for development and management

Sharing scientific, educational and institutional knowledge and experiences

Improving the livelihood of marginalized social groups and/or peoples livelihood in general

Eligible Countries Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya Mozambique Cap Verde, Burkina

Faso, Senegal

Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala

Bhutan, Nepal Palestinian Territories

Thematic Focus higher education and research for development water supply and sanitation, rural development,

energy, private sector development, governance and human rights

poverty reduction, environment and natural resources, peace building and conflict prevention, gender equality

strengthening of skills in social sciences as an instrument to systematically analyze the reasons of poverty and to empower capacities in social science research

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Results of the Calls 17 academic partnerships with a total funding amount of

~4.9 million euros

24 preparatory funding grants for the joint elaboration of academic partnership proposals with a total funding amount of ~308,000 euros

~ 45 new Master‘s and PhD scholarships,67 students taken over from the North-South-Dialogue Scholarship Programme

~ 20 new grants specifically for scholarships within academic partnership projects

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Partner Countries(accepted projects)

Partner Countries Num ber of

Burkina Faso 2Ethiopia 3M ozam bique 1Uganda 2Uganda, Kenya 1Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda 1El Salvador 1Nicaragua 2Nicaragua & Peru 1Nepal 1Palestinian Territories 2Total 17

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Austrian Institutions (accepted projects)

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Austrian Partner Institutions* Accepted projectsCarinthia University of Applied Science 1Graz University of Technology 1International Institute for Applied System s Analysis, Laxenburg

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M edical University Vienna 1University of Applied Sciences Vienna (FH Cam pus W ien)

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University of Graz 1University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna

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University of Veterinary M edicine Vienna 1University of Vienna 4Vienna University of Econom ics and Business 1

Vienna University of Technology 3* Either as coordinating institution or as partner institution

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Fact sheets

Events KEF Filmdays

Filmdays 2012 - focusing around the topic of waterSusfish presentation by Raymond Ouedraogo

>appear in practice<Invites project partners to reflect and discuss their experiences referring to a specific topic in the project implementation process of their partnerships

Other eventsPlease see the documentation on our website

Succesful Partnerships

Correct implementation of the projectAccording to the proposal, timetable, activities and budget

Sustainability

Realization of the “basic principles” of appear

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Basic Principles Demand-driven approach Participatory approach and well-balanced ownership

between the partners Systematic integration of gender perspectives Concept of culturally open minded knowledge Result orientation Dissemination of the results

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Outlook Programme will be continued

In 2012 ADA commissioned a company to conduct a mid-term evaluation of the appear programme Tendering process by ADA in 2014

Final call of the first appear phaseIn autumn 2013, only for preparatory funding for elaborating full proposals, which will be submitted for project funding in the second appear programme phase.Focus of preparatory funding is the cooperation with new partners

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